Every Men’s Physique Olympia Winner Since 2013

The IFBB added two divisions to the Olympia in 2013 to make room for more pro athletes: Men’s Physique and Women’s Physique.

Men’s Physique came with its own judging criteria built around a beach-body look. Competitors wear board shorts, so they are judged on the upper body alone.

Mark Anthony Wingson won the first one. Jeremy Buendia then won four straight, a record Ryan Terry matched in 2026. Brandon Hendrickson is the only man to have taken the title back after losing it, and Terry is the reigning champion with four in a row.

Every champion, 2013 to 2026

6 champions have won it across 14 contests

Year	Champion	Country	Runner-up
2026	Ryan Terry 4× Reigning	United Kingdom	Ali Bilal
2025	Ryan Terry 3×	United Kingdom	Ali Bilal
2024	Ryan Terry 2×	United Kingdom	Ali Bilal
2023	Ryan Terry	United Kingdom	Brandon Hendrickson
2022	Erin Banks	United States	Brandon Hendrickson
2021	Brandon Hendrickson 3×	United States	Erin Banks
2020	Brandon Hendrickson 2×	United States	Raymont Edmonds
2019	Raymont Edmonds	United States	Andre Ferguson
2018	Brandon Hendrickson	United States	Raymont Edmonds
2017	Jeremy Buendia 4×	United States	Andre Ferguson
2016	Jeremy Buendia 3×	United States	Ryan Terry
2015	Jeremy Buendia 2×	United States	Sadik Hadzovic
2014	Jeremy Buendia	United States	Sadik Hadzovic
2013	Mark Anthony	United States	Jeremy Buendia

Every Men’s Physique Olympia champion

2013: Mark Anthony Wingson

The first Men’s Physique Olympia was staged at the 49th Mr. Olympia at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, on a weekend where Jay Cutler returned from bicep surgery and Phil Heath took a third straight Sandow.

Wingson won it on symmetry and balance, clearly enough that there was little argument. He had turned pro in 2011, the same year he started competing, and worked with Cutler in the run-up to the show.

2014-2017: Jeremy Buendia

Buendia lost the first one by a place and spent the off-season adding size and sharpening his conditioning.

It worked immediately. He won in 2014, a year after turning pro, with Sadik Hadzovic second and Wingson dropping to sixth.

2015 produced the identical podium. Hadzovic came in having won the first Arnold Classic Men’s Physique and pushed Buendia hard, but Buendia edged it, then held the title for two more years. Four straight, a record nobody matched until 2026.

2018: Brandon Hendrickson

Buendia only just made the 2018 stage after an injury. Turning up at all said something, but Hendrickson took the title and Buendia fell to fourth. He stepped away from competing shortly afterwards.

Hendrickson turned pro in 2013 and had already won the Tampa Pro and the Arnold Classic before this.

2019: Raymont Edmonds

Hendrickson came back for a second title and missed his mark.

Raymont Edmonds took full advantage, winning on sheer muscle development and a posing routine people still bring up. Hendrickson finished fourth.

2020-2021: Brandon Hendrickson

Hendrickson used the Edmonds defeat as fuel, and prepped through a season complicated by pandemic restrictions. The 2020 Olympia moved from September to December and from Las Vegas to Orlando.

He won it, and became the first Men’s Physique competitor to reclaim the title after losing it. He held it again in 2021.

2022: Erin Banks

Banks arrived as the reigning Arnold Classic champion and brought his best package yet. Hendrickson lost the title for a second time.

The V-taper and the waist are what people notice, but it was balance, size and conditioning that won it. Banks became the fifth man to take the division.

2023-2026: Ryan Terry

Terry had been a favourite since the division began and had finished in every position except first: fifth, fourth, third, and runner-up. In 2023 he finally worked it out, in a lineup that included Hendrickson, Banks and a returning Buendia, who placed eighth after four years away.

His approach since has been simple enough: double down on the strengths, bring up the weaknesses. It produced a second title in 2024, on his tenth Olympia appearance, and made him the third multiple champion in the division.

In 2025, Ali Bilal came in openly saying he would retire him. Terry’s conditioning and the width of his lats settled it in the direct comparisons, against Bilal and against Hendrickson.

In 2026 he made weight at 200 pounds, two under his cap, and won a fourth straight to tie Buendia’s record, seven weeks after herniating a disc in his neck. Bilal finished second for the third year running, Kyron Holden third, and Hendrickson, fresh off an Arnold Classic win, fifth.

What the placings reveal

Only one champion ever won it on debut

Mark Anthony, at the very first Olympia in 2013. Every champion since lost before winning, on average 2.3 times first.

Mark Anthony02013

Jeremy Buendia12014

Erin Banks12022

Raymont Edmonds22019

Brandon Hendrickson32018

Ryan Terry72023

Olympias entered before a first title, fewest first

The best bodybuilders who never won it

Ali Bilal reached the podium 3 times between 2024 and 2026, 3 of them as runner-up, and never took the title.

3Bilal

3Holden

2Hadzovic

2Ferguson

2Poston

2Montenegro

1Acton

1Potvin

Each block is one podium finish. Filled = runner-up.

2 reigns hold 8 of the 14 titles

The title moves in blocks rather than years. The long reigns below are the dynasties; the single years are the era we are in now.

Mark Anthony12013

Jeremy Buendia42014–2017

Brandon Hendrickson12018

Raymont Edmonds12019

Brandon Hendrickson22020–2021

Erin Banks12022

Ryan Terry42023–2026

Each bar is one unbroken reign, oldest first

How many rivals you had to beat

The 2010s Olympia averaged 27.3 competitors. By the 2020s it was 37.7, and in the 2020s it is 37.7.

Average scored competitors per contest, by decade

Where the title lives

Champion nationality, decade by decade.

2010s7United States 7

2020s43United Kingdom 4, United States 3

Oxblood marks a champion from outside the United States